EJToday: Top Headlines

EPA Promises Action On Puerto Rico Coal Ash. Residents Tired Of Waiting [9]

"Biden’s EPA offers support to Guayama residents after decades of environmental injustice, but residents say they won’t be satisfied until the plant is closed and all its coal ash removed."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: Energy News Network [17], 05/09/2023
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Puppy Mills: Iowa Still Leads The Nation In Both Violators And Citations [18]

"Iowa continues to lead the nation in the number of regulatory violations committed by puppy mills."

Agriculture [19]
Biodiversity [20]
Environmental Justice [12]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [15]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [22]
Source: States Newsroom [23], 05/09/2023
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"Charles Is Not Your Climate King" [24]

"When Queen Elizabeth II died September 2022, her son Charles III became the new king of England. Immediately, headlines advised on how he could brand himself as the climate king."

Activism [25]
Climate Change [26]
Environmental Politics [27]
Government [28]
Public [15]
Europe [29]
Source: Earther [30], 05/09/2023
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"Wanted: Lost Crab Traps. Reward: $5" [31]

"Crab traps work a bit like Roach Motels: crabs crawl in, but they don’t crawl out. That’s good news for crab fishers’ chances of pulling in a good catch, but when traps get lost at sea, they become a menace to all sorts of animals."

Biodiversity [20]
Fish & Fisheries [32]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [33]
Source: Hakai [34], 05/09/2023
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Almost 30,000 People Displaced As Alberta Continues Battling Wildfires [35]

"A change in weather conditions has helped firefighters fight the wildfires that have forced thousands of Albertans to flee their homes this past week, officials from the Alberta Emergency Management Agency and Alberta Wildfire said Sunday."

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [36]
Forests [37]
Natural Resources [38]
People & Population [39]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Canada [40]
Source: CBC News [41], 05/08/2023
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"Fire Burns For Third Day At Shell Texas Chemical Plant" [42]

"A fire burned for a third day on Sunday at Shell Plc's chemical plant in the Houston suburb of Deer Park, Texas, a company spokesperson said."

Air [43]
Chemicals [44]
Disasters [36]
Environmental Health [11]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [45]
Source: Reuters [46], 05/08/2023
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"Federal Pipeline Agency Rolls Out Methane Proposal" [47]

"Federal pipeline regulators Friday formally proposed their first regulations to crack down on natural gas leaks from pipelines to reduce pollution and the effects of climate change."

Air [43]
Climate Change [26]
Economy & Business [48]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [33]
Source: E&E News [50], 05/08/2023
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"West Oakland Faces A Test: Undoing Decades Of Environmental Injustice" [51]

"Highway and city planners saddled a once-proud Black community with freeways and diesel fumes, while more affluent white neighborhoods were spared the traffic and toxics."

Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [27]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Planning & Growth [52]
Pollution [13]
Transportation [53]
Public [15]
California [54]
Source: Washington Post [55], 05/08/2023
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"Oil Boom Transforms Guyana, Prompting A Scramble For Spoils" [56]

"ANN’S GROVE, Guyana — Villagers in this tiny coastal community lined up on the soggy grass, leaned into the microphone and shared their grievances as someone in the crowd yelled, “Speak the truth!”"

Economy & Business [48]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [27]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [39]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
South America [57]
Source: AP [58], 05/08/2023
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"Circuit Panel’s Halt of EPA Ozone Rule Threatens National Limits" [59]

"A divided Fifth Circuit panel ruling to halt an EPA decision to disapprove key ozone plans in Texas and Louisiana foreshadows similar decisions across regional circuit courts that threaten to upend established precedent."

Air [43]
Environmental Health [11]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [33]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [60], 05/08/2023
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Florida Black Community’s Progress Is Threatened by Proposed LNG Plant [61]

"Leaders in North Port St. Joe had big plans for tourism, real estate, even a Black history museum. Then they found out, almost by accident, that elected officials had been pushing the LNG terminal for years without telling them."

Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Justice [12]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: Inside Climate News [62], 05/08/2023
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Tribe Was Barred From Cultural Burning — Then A Fire Hit Their Community [63]

"The land near Yosemite National Park had been tended by Irene Vasquez’s family for decades. They took care of their seven acres by setting small fires to thin vegetation and help some plants to grow. But the steep, chaparral-studded slopes surrounding the property hadn’t seen fire since Vasquez and fellow members of the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation were barred from practicing cultural burning on a wider scale some 100 years before."

Climate Change [26]
Disasters [36]
Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Natural Resources [38]
Public [15]
California [54]
Source: LA Times [64], 05/08/2023
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"Some Farmers Resent Ethanol Industry’s Push For Carbon Pipelines" [65]

"Craig Schaunaman, who farms thousands of acres, has been invested in the ethanol industry since its early days and even served on the board of an ethanol plant. But a carbon-capture pipeline supported by dozens of ethanol plants would cross his land, and he’s against it, even though ethanol officials say the pipeline is crucial to the future viability of the industry.

Activism [25]
Agriculture [19]
Climate Change [26]
Economy & Business [48]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Environmental Politics [27]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [21]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [33]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [22]
Source: States Newsroom [66], 05/08/2023
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"Radar, Cameras Show Sea Birds Avoid Wind Turbines" [67]

"Offshore wind energy critics often cite the risk of collision with birds as an argument against the use of wind power. But a new study conducted by European energy company Vattenfall shows that offshore wind turbines at one UK wind farm are much less dangerous to birds than previously thought, a step towards debunking common claims that turbines are a major contributor to bird mortality."

Biodiversity [20]
Climate Change [26]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Infrastructure [49]
Technology [68]
Water & Oceans [14]
Wildlife [69]
Public [15]
International [70]
Source: Climate Denial Crock [71], 05/08/2023
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Black Alabamians Endured Poor Sewage For Decades. Now They May See Justice. [72]

"Officials in Alabama discriminated against Black residents in a rural county by denying them access to adequate sanitation systems, imposing burdensome fines and liens and ignoring the serious health risks plaguing the community, according to a landmark environmental justice agreement announced Thursday by the Biden administration."

Environmental Health [11]
Environmental Justice [12]
Environmental Politics [27]
Infrastructure [49]
Laws & Regulations [21]
People & Population [39]
Pollution [13]
Waste [73]
Water & Oceans [14]
Public [15]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [16]
Source: Washington Post [74], 05/05/2023
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